Andrew Jackson Jordan was born at New Windsor, near Baltimore, Maryland, in 1845, the son of Hiram and Margaret Hopkins Jordan. He established a cutlery retailing business in St Louis in 1871, which at first imported German goods. Jordan liked quality in cutlery and that led him to look elsewhere. ‘His trade was almost entirely in America, but it was in Sheffield that he established his factory, as he wished to deal only in first-class Sheffield goods’ (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 22 June 1....